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Critter News
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
New Jersey’s first bear hunt in five years is just a week away and set to go on as planned despite a last-ditch effort by several animal rights organizations to have the hunt postponed. The facts are clear, we have an overpopulation of black bears in New Jersey, and we must address that issue," said Martin in a press statement. "A
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2014
And, if the first book in the series, the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey by Rick Wright (author) and Brian E. As a birder who frequently birds New Jersey (and sometimes works and lives there), I am so happy that New Jersey is ABA state number one! Well, in the series.)
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
Mentioning New Jersey often raises a snicker or a run down of all the drama and negative stereotypes that swirl around the Garden State, most of which are typified by the MTV hit show, “Jersey Shore.” The legislature named the goldfinch the state bird in 1935 , sharing the designation with Washington and Iowa.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2014
We were four intrepid birders heading out of New York City to the wilds of New Jersey for birds, birds and more birds. ” Sandy Hook, our destination, is park of Gateway National Recreation Area like many of my favorite New York City birding locations. .” … Trips New Jersey Sandy Hook'
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 13, 2012
It’s tough being a New Jersey birder. Jersey has always gotten a bad rap in general (the smells of the turnpike, the Jersey shore, the governor), and in the world of birding, the state often seems to be symbolized by two words: Cape May. Press, 2003). published by Princeton University Press.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 29, 2011
Sometimes my job, which is for a New Jersey-wide labor union, requires me to meet in Bayonne, across the Hudson River, which at that point is indistinguishable from New York Harbor, from Staten Island. As you can imagine traffic can be a nightmare. This often means that I end up with an hour or so to kill in Bayonne.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2013
Back on 14 January Larry and Shari Zirlin were fortunate enough to come across an amazing three Northern Lapwings in a field in New Egypt, New Jersey, while out looking for a pair of reported Sandhill Cranes. It also seemed kind of silly to go that far out of my way for a species that I just saw in November in Montauk.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2014
Yesterday, Saturday, 19 July, an apparent European Golden-Plover was found in a sod field in western New Jersey in Pittsdown, which is in Hunterdon County. Apparently, the third record of this bird in the eastern United States and the first in New Jersey was enough to get the twitchers twitching!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
I think every naturalist in the United States knows the outlines of this urban tale: The pristine marshes of New Jersey are poisoned by pollution, toxic waste, pig farms, and probably every single way in which human beings can destroy the environment. This is the fable of the New Jersey Meadowlands and it is all true.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 3, 2013
The video above, taken yesterday at New Jersey’s Stone Harbor Point by Tom Johnson , is pretty awesome. Birds Bird Behavior falcons New Jersey owls Peregrine Falcon Snowy Owl' Well, I suppose they could have been Gyrfalcons … Oh, and if that first video wasn’t enough here is a second video from today!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2012
All of these birds were photographed in the last couple of months in New York and New Jersey as they made their way south on their amazing migration. Every fall and spring for the last several years I have been putting together a collection of wood-warblers spotted on migration. Why stop now?
Critter News
JANUARY 3, 2011
New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way. According to this Technorati article , the Humane Society rated the states on their animal protection laws.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2012
The pine barrens of New Jersey look rather plain and boring if you only see them while driving past on the Garden State Parkway or New Jersey Turnpike. By the time urban and suburban sprawl started to reach New Jersey’s pine barrens they were largely protected and today over 1.1
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2019
One place that is not particularly known for sightings of the Cape May Warbler is Cape May, New Jersey, where Alexander Wilson first described the bird. There are many more people to see Cape May Warblers on migration through the eastern half of the United States or in winter in the Caribbean.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2021
The concerned person who took the photograph approached a Lukeoil Station in Northvale, New Jersey to inquire about the bird’s well-being, and the owner said dismissively that he could do whatever he liked and had four more birds at home. One might assume this is a falconry bird, but it’s not.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
… Trips Cape May doggerel New Jersey poetry terns Twitching vagrant Whiskered Tern' Two hundred plus pictures, most of them. Fly away rarity, fly, To wherever it is that you’re going. While you’re gone this guy. About seeing you will be crowing.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 27, 2012
Canine athletes are jumping through hoops to capture the gold at Doggy Games in Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Texas. Just check out these amazing doggy athletes!
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 21, 2012
Best Friends Pet Care is a leading national pet care company and offers boarding, daycare, grooming and training at 42 locations across 18 states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
Flatrock Brook is in the the city of Englewood, New Jersey, just across the George Washington Bridge from New York City. They were gone from New York State from the 1840s until around 1948 and in New Jersey from the mid-1800s until they were reintroduced in 1977.)
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
I was also notified of a study of Brant behavior that is being done collectively by wildlife agencies from New Jersey, New York, and Canada. It was banded in Monmouth County, New Jersey, on 8 March of this year. By reporting the banded goose I gave one more data point to to this scientific effort.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Here is the updated eBird heat map: Unsurprisingly for a site founded and run by two New Yorkers, the Empire State still boasts the highest number of species (363, up from 316). Thus, there are now seven states with 200+ observed species. The state with the largest increase was Arizona , with 139 species added.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 17, 2013
Doggy proms will be held throughout the week at Best Friends Pet Care centers in the Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Denver, San Diego and Houston metro areas, across Connecticut and New Jersey, and in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Charlotte and at Best Friends Pet Care center at Walt Disney World in Florida.
10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2018
Northern Cardinal , Blue Jay , Northern Mockingbird – not drawn to scale but completely ok for New Jersey. For instance, take this image, found decorating a room at the summer camp in Friday the 13th: The Game. Apparently the ornithology of Camp Crystal Lake is pretty wacky. Weirder things have happened.
Critter News
OCTOBER 17, 2009
Six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted at a 2006 trial in New Jersey of conspiracy to violate the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. Huntingdon used mostly mice and rats , but also some dogs, monkeys, fish and guinea pigs , in its research in New Jersey. From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2014
He kindly agreed to share his knowledge of this new threat to the beaches of New York and the animals and plants that rely on them. A new invasive plant is threatening the beaches of Long Island, Asiatic Sand Sedge or Carex kobomugi. This is a young plant producing a new white rhizome from its base.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2013
Greg Cantrell is doing a New Jersey Big Year, hoping for 300 species, and raising funds for the New Jersey Audubon Citizen Science program. No blog, but you can check out this post on the New Jersey eBird portal. You can see what she is up to at Laura’s Conservation Big Year 2013.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2012
Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond. New Jersey mystery sparrow. The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2013
I was at the Oradell Reservoir in Bergen County, New Jersey (the northeasternmost county in New Jersey for those keeping track at home) and the woods were busy with Palm Warblers , Yellow-rumped Warblers , and Pine Warblers. A recent encounter with a female Pine Warbler was one such opportunity.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2015
Even though American rehabbers are notoriously broke and always searching for their own funding, one bought Nadeem an NWRA membership and paid for his conference fee; another coached him through the application process and helped him win a scholarship to pay his airfare from India to New Jersey. What’s left?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2011
According to the Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of New Jersey (link is a PDF) there are thirteen species of turtle that can be found in the state, so I have already spotted just under a third of the turtle species that there are to see in the Garden State.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2013
The following has been released by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. CONTACT: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It looks like we are well on our way to victory on this issue! December 9, 2013. 212-435-7777. STATEMENT FROM THE PORT AUTHORITY ON SNOWY OWLS.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2021
When he isn’t traveling the world in search of birds, art, and excitement, Rick Wright lives in northern New Jersey with his family, Alison Beringer and Avril Huang, and their black lab puppy, Quetzal. The post Come See Birds and…Everything appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
California and New Jersey came out on top. It's their first annual "humane state" report. Ohio, Mississippi, North Dakota, Idaho and South Dakota are at the bottom.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2014
On October 29 th 2012, “superstorm” Sandy devastated the east coast of the USA, affecting states from Florida to Maine, with severe damage in New Jersey and New York. We know that Corey and his family came through the ordeal safely, but what of the warblers?
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2012
Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2018
Corey had a lovely Thanksgiving weekend visiting family in upstate New York and in New Jersey. My family actually pays attention to eagles too, which makes them more interesting to see. This was an easy one to decide on as Best Bird of the Weekend, even if the photographic opportunities were not great.
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2012
The bird in these photos was foraging in the pond at the south end of Van Saun Park in northern New Jersey, a place I often stop to bird briefly on my way to work.
Critter News
JULY 5, 2010
On Friday, the beagles — owned by a research facility in New Jersey whose parent pharmaceutical company went into bankruptcy — were released to the care of animal rescue groups that, after socializing them, hope to adopt them out as family pets.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
where she grew up, and central New Jersey, where she is on the faculty of a very large public university, and a volunteer with the Sandy Hook Bird Observatory of New Jersey Audubon. Donna divides her birding time between Queens, N.Y.,
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2012
Their fondness for open woods means that they often adapt well to breeding in parks and it was Van Saun Park in New Jersey’s Bergen County that I found the individual shown in this blog post. Warbling Vireos are found breeding in open deciduous woods, often riparian, across Mexico, the United States, and southern Canada.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2012
It was taken in Paramus, New Jersey, at Van Saun Park earlier today. Well, what is odd about this picture? Spotted Sandpiper Actitus macularia Figured it out? Scroll on down to learn the answer. … … … … … … … … … Keep On Scrolling!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2011
Because of my job I have, of late, been spending lots of time in southern New Jersey. Of course I have not been spending time in the southernmost part of New Jersey because, as a birder, I could never be lucky enough to have to work in Cape May. Keep singing, Song Sparrow , and people of Camden, keep struggling.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2014
New Jersey’s first European Golden-Plover , which was found in Pittstown on Saturday, stuck around for Corey to chase on Sunday. How do you like my odds of finding a different blue bird next weekend? Maybe I’ll have to leave the country! Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a wonderful bird to twitch.
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